Nice Book Reviews
..."phallic shadow"-master in the weekend review. But even less direct disapproval can ping a radar, if you've been out and about in the professional world for long enough. That’s pretty...
Econospeak
...host of professional and intellectual failures. With the New York Times as his pulpit, he began his omniscient narration: “The central cause of the profession’s failure was the desire for...
This Week in Art Crime
...the amount it cost to fix the plexiglass that Noll broke, as well as hiring a professional to restore Banksy's "angel boy" piece, which was partially covered with spray paint....
Kenya’s Security Act: The Human
...Kenya—its status as industry and profession, as world framing and world constricting—makes me very uneasy. It’s not clear that professional activists speak the same language or have the same aims...
Wound Down Inside
...My Way Up to the Top”), but the music sure doesn’t seem to climax or climb. The album’s climaxes aren’t absent, just muted—infra-ed rather than ultra-ed. For example, “Cruel World”...
Bun of Contention
...Illustrations from Emil Braun's The Baker's Book (1902) An earlier version of this essay appears at The Austerity Kitchen’s old site. Pass some dinner rolls their way and...
Devastation in Meatspace
...The missile rushing over your head was processed through an Instagram filter just hours previously. As you see it pass out of sight behind the apartment block opposite...
The literary
...silver." No one needed to censure such images to destroy their effectiveness. Time just needed to pass and expose that Updike was trying too hard, with the sort of effort...
Run, Boy, Run
...to pass through it to something much weirder: “It’s you, it’s you, it’s all for you / Everything I do / I tell you all the time.” I tell you...
Blind Ambition
...me, / Nor pass me with a sigh, / Because the great and blessed light / Is hidden from mind eye; / What though I cannot see the orb --...
The Island
...imagines something worse: that people are tortured there. It has been going on for a while. Years pass. The rough sea of the crossing makes it feel far. The swells...
Break It Down
...works such sort that the spoil was so great that a man could not well pass through the church. Images are powerful. They can bring people into such a pitch...
Contained selves
...elaborated, linked up to other ones, other people, made to become promiscuous. So thanks to social media you can get the experience of "realness" without having to pass through the...
Black Riot
The difference between riots and protests has more to do with who and where than what
and that alone is love, that which never becomes something else
...lives in time, and the wandering jew is the man of no woman and lives in eternity. girls! three stages we all pass through. well that’s what i understood. a...
Mourning
...days to each other’s vulnerability to death, and brings bodies into a kind of communion with others that will never touch or pass. No writing on the subject of death...